In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

An elderly bell maker reminisces about his life filled with tragedy.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
In 1912, a mysterious patient is brought at the asylum. Little the doctor knew, that his would be th...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns t...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

Legendary singer Claire Emery flies to Japan for a final sold-out concert. But when the show ends, s...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...